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A friend recent;y asked me about DarkCoin, and I had to admit I hadn’t heard anything about it. Sure I have some bitcoins but only really to say I have them. So when he asked I just thought `ah there’s another one`. He then asked how someone would mine these things, So I showed him a few youtube videos of pretty impressive setups.

Anyway to the point, I ran through a quick demonstration of how the miner would work and setup one up on a Virtual Server (Droplet). So for anyone that’s interested here goes (p.s. I can’t say you’ll make a fortune from this method, it’s more proof of concept).

We’ll be using DigitalOcean for our server, so you’ll need an account. Signup here There’s always some promo codes for some credit at present SSDMAY10 give you an extra $10 credit. I personaly use DigitalOcean to host a few of my projects and they’re great for being able to test ideas.

Once you have your account setup, Create a new Droplet I normally use the Latest Ubuntu.So the specs I’m testing this on are:-

One thing to note, the above command will test under MY pool test login. You will not receive any coins doing this and should only be used as a test. You can stop this using CTRL+C

As long as that all seems to be ok, we should now join a pool. I’m currently using DarkCoin Official Pool I have no idea how ‘Official’ it is, but I was drawn to the graphs 🙂 I did briefly run a miner on windows using this guide and received coins directly into my wallet. Whereas using the pool I’ll have to cash anything out to my wallet and that will incur a charge. I would have also shown using the servers from the other guide, but at present they seem to be down I suppose that’s why this Pool does charge small admin % on each transaction. I can’t say I mind for good service.